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OUR GRASSROOTS BEGINNING...
The Cordova Community Food Locker was founded in 1987 by a
group of concerned citizens in Rancho Cordova who saw a real
need for a local food locker. An organizational meeting headed by
Walter Liftle and John Healey, as well as representatives from the
community's churches, civic organizations, and interested private
citizens set a goal to develop a "community based" food locker.
This was not a small project! Help from a number of people and many
donations were needed to reach the goal.
Generous people with great ideas started pitching in to make the food locker a reality. St. John Vianney Church offered a 12' x 60' trailer with a walk in refrigeration unit located on their property. Over 300 interested people attended the informational meeting and more than 150 people volunteered to help.
On April 1, 1987, the Cordova Community Food Locker became a reality and has been going strong for 20 years. In the first year, more than 1,500 individuals were fed per month. With the help and donations from the citizens and organizations in Rancho Cordova. we are now able to provide food assistance to 5,000 hungry people each month. In the past 20 years, Cordova Community Food Locker has fed over 330,000 hungry families and more than a million individuals. None of this would have been possible without our volunteers and generous donors.
OUR FOOD SOURCE:
The Cordova Community Food Locker is part of a food network, We receive the majority of our food supplies from California Emergency Foodlink, a non-profit organization that distributes food to Food Banks and Closets through out California. Foodlink gets food from donations such as Raley's Food For Families program, annual food drives such as the State Employee's Food Drive, the Postal Workers Food Drive, the KCRA-3 Kids Can Food Drive, private donations and the government's USDA program, California Emergency Foodlink provides a portion of all these donations to the Cordova Community Food Locker.
We also receive food from our own schools Boy and Girl Scouts, several civic organizations and many private, caring citizens in the Rancho Cordova community.Although most food items ca n be obtained through our network system, food drives and donations, there are always a few items in demand that must be purchased. The Cordova Community Food Locker typically must purchase baby items such as baby food. cereal, formula and diapers. Our budget must also supplement products that don't meet our required quantities.
MEET OUR CLIENTS:
Our clients come from all walks of life. Those people who are unemployed or between jobs, having bad luck, seniors, the homeless, working poor, and newly arrived immigrants make up the bulk of Cordova clients, We feed everyone who comes to Cordova for food. There is never a fee for food.
Financial Support:
The Rancho Cordova area's many churches,
civic organizations and private citizens support
the food locker financially each month. Our
truck was donated and is maintained by the
Cordova Kiwanis Club. Funds are used not
only for food, but also for supplies, The
maintenance of the Cordova facility. vehicles
and administration are all funded by donations.
Each and every donation is very much
appreciated, and used to help those in need
within our Rancho Cordova community
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